@rocknerve/pdftotext

Another simple Node.js wrapper for the popular pdftotext library.

This one supports parse-until-time-limit and parse-until-maximum-text-size.

It also automatically installs pdftotext if it runs as the root user on a Debian/Ubuntu/Mint system, which is pretty nice.

No intermediate files are used.

Install:

npm i @rocknerve/pdftotext

Example usage:

const ConvertPDFToText = require("@rocknerve/pdftotext");

your_pdf_data_buffer = await readFile("example.pdf");
your_pdf_data_buffer = await (await fetch("https://example.com/example.pdf")).arrayBuffer();

your_plain_text_string = await ConvertPDFToText({
    input: { body: your_pdf_data_buffer },
    timelimit_ms: 10_000, // optional; limit processing to 10 seconds
    sizelimit_bytes: 65535, // optional; limit text output to 64KB
    logger: (line) => console.log(`--- PDF parsing status: ${line}`), // optional; you can also pass `false` to avoid default logging to stdout
});

Potential future features:

• Allow streaming IO
• Allow PDF URLs to be passed and fetched automatically
• Make nice for Deno 2
• Support DOCX or other types too